The timing of ICQ’s launch was critical to its early success, according to founding investor Yossi Vardi.
AIM offered something similar, but it didn’t debut until a year later. The concept of centralizing real time conversations in a single messaging app was totally new in 1996. Centralized conversationsĪ searchable user directory was just one of ICQ’s unique features. Best of all, this info was searchable: a big differentiator for ICQ in its early days. The UIN was the only part of your ICQ profile that was public by default, but you could choose to share the email address registered to your account to facilitate people getting in touch with you. Registered users were assigned a User Identification Number, instead of an alphanumeric username, upon signing up. “ICQ” is meant to represent the words “I seek you.” It’s a phrase that sums up one of the things that made ICQ unique out of the gate: anyone could message you even if you hadn’t connected previously.Īctually finding your friends on the ICQ client was the challenging part. ICQ was launched on the Windows operating system in 1996, the project of four college students (and one of their dads) from Israel. How did ICQ get started, what made it unique, and what happened to ICQ? Let’s take a look. ICQ deserves recognition, though, for pioneering some of the best features of IM. That honor goes to ICQ, an instant messenger that AIM, for a number of reasons, overshadowed. Everyone you knew had an AIM account (which meant you had to have one too).īut AIM, for all of its commercial success, actually wasn’t the first messenger or IM program to hit it big. (for example, a link back to their website).Growing up in the Nineties and early 2000s, AOL Instant Messenger was the IM app that seemed to make instant messaging mainstream. The license to see if the designer is requesting attribution This icon can be used for both Personal &Ĭommercial purposes and projects, but please check
Converting it to an ICO, JPEG or WebP image format or file type should also be pretty simple (we hope to add that feature to Iconduck soon). If you need this icon available in another format, it should be pretty straight forward to download it as an SVG image file, and then import it into apps like Adobe Illustrator, Crello, Pablo or Sketch. It's part of the icon set " Fontisto Icon Library", which has 615 icons in it. It's available to be downloaded in SVG and PNG formats (available in 256, 512, 10 PNG sizes). This open source icon is named "icq" and is licensed under the open source MIT license.
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